Now, What D'ye Think of That?

This four-panel Sunday comic employs sequential storytelling to track a domestic scene: a woman deposits a baby in a basket, then abandons her post as the child's father leaves and the mother departs for social obligations. The final panels show the infant crawling away unsupervised while a dog stands guard. The strip uses panel borders, speech balloons, and recurring characters—visual conventions that became foundational to comic narrative. Early 1900s newspaper comics like this established the formal language of the medium: discrete frames advancing plot, dialogue integrated with action, and situational humor drawn from everyday domestic life. Such Sunday pages were the primary venue for sequential art before comic books emerged as a distinct format.